Tag: logging
Indians, Satellites, Helicopters, Machine Guns: All Is Fair in the War to Defend the Amazon
When George Porto joined Brazil’s environment agency 13 years ago, the country didn’t have ...
Brazil’s Plan: Deforestation Zero by 2030
Home to the vast Amazon, Brazil has reduced its deforestation rate by more than ...
Brazilian Loggers Double Amazon Deforestation Hoping for Amnesty
In Brazil, deforestation rates in the Amazon, the world’s biggest rain forest, more than ...
Only Zero Deforestation Can Save Brazil’s Rainforest
High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you'd normally associate with the ongoing clearance ...
Brazil’s Land Reform Is Spurring Amazon Deforestation, Greenpeace Claims
Brazil's government has promised to investigate allegations that its policy of settling landless communities ...
60% of Wood Cut in Brazilian Amazon Goes to Waste
Studies by Brazil’s Amazonian Institute for Man and the Environment (IMAZON), a non-governmental organization ...
Brazilian Associations Get Help on Obtaining Green Seal
Of the 62 forest management units in Brazil that possess what is referred to ...
Forest Loss in the Amazon Should Be Double of What Was Reported
Researchers have managed to count the uncountable in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. In a study ...
More than US$ 3 Million in Fines on Illegal Loggers in Brazil’s Amazon
Operation Uiraçu, carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources ...
500 Police from Brazil Out for Biopiracy and Animal Trafficking
To combat biopiracy, illegal transportation of wood, and international trafficking of animals, Brazil’s Federal ...
